Friday, October 17, 2008

Beware of today's Supreme Court ruling

ILLUSTRATED: The Supreme Court today subtly attacked the rights of individuals to enforce federal laws.

There was a high profile decision from the High Court today that is considered a political victory for Democrats. The Democratic Secretary of State of Ohio does not have to throw out 200,000 of the 600,000 new voting registrants of 2008. The GOP claimed that there were discrepancies, in the applications and the state records. But the Secretary successfully argued that the GOP was trying to prevent people from voting. Moving, foreclosure, and clerical error could be the explanation.

2 things are to be learned:
First, the Roberts Court does not want people, or private parties enforcing federal laws when they are not expressly authorized to do to in the legislation. This could have a bad effect when the federal government is not effectively enforcing the law on its own. This was very much a state's rights ruling. Therefore.........
It is crucial to elect Democratic state officials to make sure justice is done and good policy is enforced. Democrats are not necessarily anti state power, we believe in good government at all levels.

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